Yoichiro Kawaguchi is an international trailblazer in the field of art using computer graphics. Throughout his career he has used programming and mathematical simulations of the birth, growth, and evolution of the forms of living things to create artistic life forms that inhabit the distant future, 500 million years from now. His artistic endeavors over the last half century are imbued with respect for the life forms that have survived by adapting to their environments over a seemingly eternal stretch of time.

Imagining the world in 500 million years entails envisaging how life will survive until such a time in the far distant future. The intelligence of life that has survived the past 500 million years is the very pivotal element of the evolution of the living things around us, and essentially nature’s gift of knowledge to help humankind survive the next 500 million years.

This exhibition presents the “swimming,” “walking,” and “flying” artistic life forms of the future, as well as recent drawings, among other works. We invite you to enjoy Kawaguchi’s world filled with rich colors and vibrance and the diversity of the intelligence of life.